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UNITED STAT S V Alfred Reymes Cole and Bernard;Thornton-Cole,,

Leicester, England, assignors to Wildt and Corn- 7 pany Limited, Adelaide "Works, Tudor Rad,

Leicester, England Application January 30, 1934, Serial e.*109,030

V In Great BritainApril 11, 1933 H '12 Claims. (01. 66-95) I ,This invention is concerned with knitting machines'for knitting fabric incorporating pelerine' stitches. As is well understood, a pelerineustitch is one wherein a sinker loop joining two needle loops is displaced sideways or widened and en: circles a needle loop (in the case of a single pelerine stitch) or needle loops (in the caseo-f double pelerene stitch) of an adjacent .wale or Such stitches are produced by mechanism of a type comprisingat least one pelerineinstrument movable relatively to and transversely of the needles between a loop- 1 receiving position, whereat it receives the sinker loop connecting two adjacent needles, and a loop-- 'distending or displacing position whereat said loop is distended or displaced and is transfixed itherto, after the loop by one or more needles. has been transfixed, it hasbeen dragged off the instrument, an operation whichhas deleterious effects upon the yarn and upon' the appearance of the fabric produced; The present invention avoids this by providing means for lifting the loop from the instrument. z

It has previously been considered essential to widen the loop mechanically by a fork or'spreader on the end of the instrument, thespan of which spreader is sufficient to accommodate the two needles whichare to transfix the loop. This has imposed a limitation upon the number of in-;

struments that may be employed in respect of a. given number of needles and has limited the sequence in which they may be introduced into activity. a 1

The applicants have established that forked or divergentinstruments areunnecessary and that the loop canJbe caused to belly out with out employing mechanical means for distending it. Therefore, according to a feature of this invention, non-divergent pelerine instruments may be employed, and'as a result of this there may,

if desired, be a' pelerine instrument in respect of each sinker space, and fabric may be produced having double, and/or single pelerine stitches in.

adjacent sinker wales and/or alternate sinker wales. Moreover, a pelerine fabric may be pro duced in which, considering a needle wale and the sinker wale' to each side thereof,'at.diiferent courses needle loops are encircled by sinker loops ple, with reference tcthe accompanying drawings in which being moved by cams carried in a' rotatable sin er cap l6. Immediately" bove this cap Whicl'i'constitutela bed in whichrpelerin a-insi i Figure lijis a sectio showing oneembodiment: of the invention.

Figure 2 is an elevation of l a' p'elerine. ment shown in Figurel. g: Figures 3 and 4 illustrate the functioningiof the instrumentand associated parts'r'; Figure 5xisa diagrem showing thelrelative tru movements of. they needles: and the instrument.

Figure 6 shows patterning mechanism, applica-,- ble to 'the'embodiinent shown in Figure 51; and; to the embodiment shownxin Figure? .7;"; Figure .-.'7 is a section'showing a, furtheremv, bodiment of the invention. it v 1. 1,. Figures 8 and 9 illustrate the functioning of the pelerine instrument and associated-partsshown inFigure'l; w Figure 10 is an invertedrlviewof'a cam-tracks for said instrument-and sinkers Figure 11 is an elevation of :the pelerine n-. strument'shown in Figure '7. Figure 1'2cis. an elevation of a cooperating strument While'. I 1 1.. I 1' 1. 5 Figures 13*and .14" show further details of 1 he: patterning mechanism, while. Figure'15 is an elevationjof'said mechanism. Figure 16 shows'fabric, incorporating various arrangements of pelerine stitches, that can-onlybe produced on a machine'by the exercise of this invention; Throughout this description like reference -nu-. merals indicate likeparts'." r

In the attached drawingsQthe invention lis'l needle "cylinder :is-jstationary and :the camq box rotates, or indeed to other knittingjmachines, Referringto, Figure '1, in the needle cylinder; lll thereare needles H, here-illustrated as latch needles, -movable by means of cams (not;shown and cooperating'with web holders-or,- sinkers l3; slidably mounted in tricks it [out .in- ;the-;upper surface of a sinker'ring l5 rigidlysecured' to the;

cylinder; These sinkers perform :their normal; movements transversely of the line ofv the, needles l6,there is "an instrument ring or segment lf'aWhiCh dog ed to the sinker ringil5'by means of dogd-flt. the upper surface ofa part I8: This part ;l8 may be integral with theisinker ring 15-, orvgmay be rigidly secured thereto."( The, ring or segment. I1;

is cut with r the requisite. number; 0L tricks: I 9 l,

drawn over the upper edge of the instrument 2'0 and not over the upper edge of the associated sinker l3.

In the loop-displacing or distending position, the loop-engaging end of the instrument lies to the outside of the needle circle and the sinker loop is drawn outwards by the instrument into an attitude wherein it is inclined upwards and outwardly, the arrangement being such that the,

loop is distended for or bellied out to permit, one or both of the-adjacent needlesentering'the sinkor loop: when they? are again. projected; Each needle which so transfixes the sinkerloop draws its needle loop at the next course through'said sinker loop to form pelerine-fabric'in'the-known manner-L Conveniently-, the' inward movements ofthe peleriheinstrumentsi-are imparted thereto by selecting mechanism. hereinafter described, which operates on butts- 2012* at contrasting heights on T the tails of the instruments, while their outward movements maybe governed by the-cams, such 219- 26, in-th'e-interior' of an'instrument cam-holding ring 21. The said .camzring l'lis fixedin relation to theneedle cam box and/or'the sinker cam ring IBi i The relative movements of therneedles H and instruments- 2b are showndiagrammatically in Figure 5. In the upper p'art' of thisfigure the needle' movements are indicated by the chain dotted line N and those ofi the instrument by the dotted line Ih-both in elevation; in the lower part thereof the line of the needles is indicated insplan by tli'e' dotted line: N1, whilethe'movements" of the instruments (transversely of the needle cir-- cle) are -indicated: by-the chain dotted line I.

Followingth'e figure from right to left, it will he seen thatas the needles rise to take the yarntheinstrumentslie outsidethe needlecircle at 2' but as the needles descend the stitch cam from.

n tb= 1Z tlie instruments are projected inwards to a loop receiving position=i ,i 'and:the needles drawtheir-loops over them. Whenv the' loops have beenz drawn: the: needles II: are preferablyraised somewhat J to 11 to ensure that the latches are} opened by the: old:v loops, but are then low-- ere'd tb a level nitn yslightly above that (n .11

a which they were previously" brought by the stitch=camo i about. the:timethat the needles Fl reach the limit? oft their second: descent (at n the' instruments are retracted from i totheir lbop=displacingr positionatandassoon afs may: be" after their loop-engaging endshave been: withdrawn to'the outside of the needle circle; the needles: H commence-to rise.: (indicated= a't nfithereby reducingthe tension in the dis-- placed sinker: loops. Preferably at the same'time. theweb holders-135. are retracted'also, but only ttva, very slight; extent (in a seamless hose ma-- chine; they maybe retracted only through a few thousandths of an inch) retraction of th'e'sinkers l-3 alsoreduces: the tension on the'sinker'loop's,v aswill readily be appreciated byone skilled in: the art, and the net result ofith'ese" operationsiis that the sinkerloopbellies cut to am extent sufiicient to permit.

two needles I l to be projected through it. This phase is illustrated in' Figure 3. Needless to say, by delaying the projection of one of the adjacent needles at n", each sinker loop can be transfixed by only one needle producing what may be termed a single pelerine stitch.

When a sinker loop hasbeen' distended and transfixed by one or two needles ll, it is desirable to cast oil? the sinker loop from the instrument 20 either after, but preferably before, the projected needles have drawn loops in the next course. According to the present invention this casting oil is preferably effected by a movement of the instrument down towards the associated needles to disengage the bight of the loop (as is indicated by a depression in the line.I at theleft hand side of Figure 5) and the operation may be materially assisted if there is a device cooperating with each instrument and said instrument is movable to bring its upper loop-engaging edge or hook 2|. below an upper loop-supporting vedgeof the. cooperating device so that the latter lifts or removes the loop from it;

A construction by which this result is achieved is illustrated in Figures 1, 3 and 4. The pelerine instruments 2!], each of which consists of two thin" blades, are each located above and in line with" a sinker I3, the lower and inner edge of each blade being chamfered, as is indicated at 2%, Figure 2, to provide a groove or guide in which the top edge of thesinker l3 works. After the loop has been transfixed by a needle or needles, the front or loop-engaging end of. the instrument is tilted downwards so that the two blades comprising theinstrument pass down: one on each side of the associated. sinker I3. In so-doingthe hook 2| is sunk below the top edge of the sinker, which therefore removes the loop from'it as is shown in'Figure 4; This arrangement'has the-advantage that it avoids that frayingof the yarn fibreswhich is an inherent dis ability inthe .previous constructions employing.

ately after, this cam 26a comes into operation,

the instruments are. brought within the'range of a depressing. cam 31 which engages their upper edges just near their inner loop engaging ends anddepresses them, the tricks within which the instruments are mounted being downwardly inclined towards the needles to permit of the instruments tilting as shown in Figure 1. When the loops have been cast off 'in' this manner, the butts 26a are engaged by a springplate 28'which lies within their cam. race so that the instruments are againbrought to' the horizontal. It mayhere be. mentioned that there is a similar spring plate in the cam race, for the butts 26a,

in theregion wherethe stitch cam comes into operation, the object of. this being to prevent the instruments beingtilted as the needles draw the. sinker loops over them.

It will. be. realized that the depressing cam 31 bears a fixed relationship to the cams which As the instruments 20 and needles.-

proje'ctthe needles (the expression fixed. as used herein does not rule out the possibilityof slight circumferential adjustment of said cam 3| by means of the, holding-down screws 32' and. curved slots).

An important feature of this invention resides inthe plane or non-divergent construction (i. e. having no lateral offset parts) :of .the instruments,,in which they, are distinguished from'the needles or in linewith' a space betweenthe two '15.-

essentially forked instruments which havehitherto been employedin pelerine .mechanism. In"other 1-words each instrument throughout all operative periods extends'between the sametwo needles. To present-this matter somewhat differently, the instruments for at least that portion of their length that passes across the line of needlesin their transverse'movement are of I a widthless than the distance between two adjacent needles. For this reason more such instruments may be employed inthe needle circle than has hitherto been possible. Indeed, there may be as many instruments asthere are spaces between the needles, thus permitting .of the pro- 7 duction of'pel'erine stitches inf adjacent sinker wales (when there is an instrument for each. I

space between the needles these instruments will be selected in an alternating sequence, say even instruments at one course and odd instruments at the next course embodyingpelerine stitches), althoug'hit will generally be preferred to provide pelerine Jinstruments' only at alternate spaces, or in somein'stan'ce's even less frequent- 13;. It may here be pointed out that for the sake of. convenience only a few of the instruments are shown in Figurefi.

This plane construction of instrument is ren-' dered'poss ible. by the discovery that a 'mechan ical distentionordistortion, by means of forks or spreaders, of the sinker loops to permit of .their being. transfixed by the needles is not necessary. In this connection it may be pointed out that if when an instrument has been moved to its loop-displacing position the tension on said loop is released, the loop will belly outwards, an effect which it is believed is due'in part to sinkercap' lli, whereby the sinkers have their" normalmovementsimparted to them. Certain spaced sinkers, however, are provided at their upper edge with a loop engaging hook 2|? and these sinkers are employed as pelerine instruments and have special movements imparted to them. Conveniently, each pelerine-sinker has a short butt 32a (the normal sinkers having longer butts), the cams 31 and 38 being reduced in thickness at appropriate places to permit of said short butts having: a movement which differs from the normal movements of the long butts.

At the outer end of each pelerine sinker, on the underside, there is a recess 321), which is engaged by a projection at the upper end of a selecting instrument 34. These selecting instruments 34 work in vertical tricks in the sinker ring l5,

which tricks are inline with sinker tricks, and they are pivoted at their lower ,ends by means of a part-circular proj ection 34a which is received in. a retaining plate 35 attached to the underside of the sinker ring. In order to select the pelerine-sinkers 32 andto move them inwardsto loopreceiving positions, selecting cams bear upon the, 4 butts 20b with which the selectors 34 are provided at contrasting levels, and in order to withdraw the pelerine-sinkers 32 to their loop-displacing positions, the selectors 34 are provided with outwardly extending butts-34b, the upper edges of which are engaged by a cam 33. It may here be mentioned that the patterning scope is increased if. the cam 36. is movable radially and the butts 34b withwhich it engages areof contrasting heights.

Themovements of the sinker butts are illustrated in Figure 10,,whichis an inverted view of the sinker cap 16 of Figure 7, the path taken by the long butts of the normal sinkers (and the short butts of such pelerine-sinkers that are not selected to form pelerine stitches in any one course) being indicated by the dotted lines 323,

While the path taken by the short butts 32a of the operative pelerine-sinkers is indicated by the chain dotted lines 32A. The butts of the normal sinkers and of those pelerine-sinkers 32 which in arrow and are engaged by a cam 31 and moved radially outwards, being subsequently engaged by a cam 38 and-'moved inwards. Thosepelerine-f sinkers, however, which are to function in the course under consideration are pushed inwards by selectors 40 just prior to their butts 32a being taken by the cam-38,.the cam 37 being cut away locally at 31a'to half the thickness to accommodate this inward movement of the short butts 32a. These pelerine-sinkers are slightly advanced by the cam 38 and then continue round while the needles are drawing their'loops and while said any course are inoperative, pass around in relation to the cap H5 in the direction-shown by the needles are being raised to clear their latches and 1 lowered again as is indicated in Figure 5. iSubsequently, however, the pelerine-sinkers are retracted to loop-displacing positions whenthe retracting cam 36 (Figure 7,) makes contact .with

the butt 34b of the rocking selectors 34 associated with said pelerine-sinkers, the cam 38 being cut away locallyas at 38a to half the thickness to permit of this retraction of the short butts while preventing any outward movement of the longbutted normal sinkers. The said short butts may either be returned subsequently to the normal sinker butt path 323, or they may continue round at the radius to which they have been retracted as described, in which case the cam 39 (which it will be understood comes into operation during reciprocation of the machine) is either of. half. thickness or is reduced locally, at 39a tohalf thickness.

The-sinker loops which are engaged and displaced by the pelerine-sinkers 32 when thelatter' are retracted by cam 36 are causedto belly out,

preferably in the manner hereinbefore described,

and means are provided for casting'the loops off from the hooks 2| after said loops have been transfixed. To this end, each pelerine-sinker may be mounted so that it may be tilted down or depressed within its trick, the said instrument cone veniently having a-notch 320, as shown in Figure 11, to permit this tilting. .As described withref erence' to Figure 1, there may be adepressing cam 3| which bears on-the top of .the pelerinesinker, but conveniently in this alternative construction now under consideration, the pelerinesinkersjare Withdrawn until a suitably located tiltingcam 3| engages the outer and more-or-less" vertical. edge of the upwardly projecting part of the sinker. As is clearly illustrated in Figure 7, this results in the sinker being tilted downwards; Preferably, alongside each pelerine-sinker and conveniently in the same trick, there is a blade 33,

having a tail 3-3?) which extends outwards into the sinker trick. and having an upper supporting edge 553a,,which because the hook 21' of the pelerine-sinker is brought below it in .the aforesaid tilting motion serves to remove the transfixed loop from the sinker. This operation is clearly illustrated in Figures 7, 8 and 9.

though there may be one blade only. When one blade is employed, it may either be located at one side of the pelerine sinkeror. the latter may be split vertically into two'parts and the blade 33 may be located between said-parts.

Having now dealt with the operation of the instruments and their shape, it is convenient to describe mechanism for selecting them. Nu-

merous forms of selecting mechanism -may be devised; a form which has been found suitable in a seamless hose machine is shown in Figures 6, l3 and i l. This mechanism comprises in the main a battery of selecting cams Ml, there'being one cam for each selecting butt 2%. In the construction illustrated, there are butts 2th at eight levels, and there are eight selecting cams 48.

These cams are pivoted at ll upon a pin which is fixed in a base plate 53, itself adjustably se cured to a platform 56 by means of set-screws 1 54' and slot 65, and they are drawn by tension springs 413 towards a trick wheel or pattern wheel 56. I In the periphery of this pattern wheel, there are removable bits 5i, having patterning butts at eight different levels and as the said trick wheel is racked round by mechanism hereinafter described (one step for example at every third courselthe butts on the bits 55 come into contact with feeler projections 39 on the selecting cams 40.

; round during the rctation of the machine-they are therefore engaged by the selecting cams 40 and the associated perline instruments are pushed inwards at or about the time the adjacent needles pass down the stitch cam. These needles, therefore, draw their sinker loops over the pelerine instruments thus selected, as has been described.

The mechanism by which the trick wheel 50 is racked comprises a cam 55 upon therotatable needle cylinder it, which, once in every revolution engages a bell crank lever iltand rocks it, so that a clawker 5'5 pivoted thereto moves to a large ratchet wheel 59 by one tooth. The said clawker is drawn by a spring 58 against the ratchet 59 and the latter is rotatable about the shaft 52 of the trick wheel ond has attached to it a wheel Ell on which radially projecting blades 6! are located. 7 i

As will be observed from the drawings, it is preferred that there-shall be a blade at every It is preferred that there shall be two such blades 33, one on each side of the pelerine-sinker, al-

Any cam '39 thus engaged by a butt onthe trick wheel 59 is moved so that a part '44 on aoraoes third tooth of the-ratchet 59, although provision.

maybe made forthem at more frequent inter vals. It. is these blades'which move the. rockinglever 41 and itszvertical projection 'beforementioned because attached to the leverv 41' there is another 31ever1fi2 which iszdrawn .against the blades 6| by azs'pring 63,"but they have another function. Th'esaid blades Bl also serve to rock of this lever 66, a- 'small'clawker 68 is, pivoted-:

at "it! and is drawn by means of a coil spring: l2- th'at extends between'a pin TS and'a hook- H on said'clawkerinto c'ontactwith the teeth on a ratchet wheel 64, the'pitch of which teeth is the same as that' of the bits in the trick-wheel 50 The-said ratchet wneei 64 is thereby racked one toothevery' three courses and as it is connected to the shaft 52 'of'the' trick wheel 50; the latter is racked similarly;

I A fresh; selection struments is therefore made every third course, but inforder thatjselections maybe made more frequently "if suchi's; desired provision"may be made in .the wheel 60 'toaccommo-date "a blade 6i opposite every tooth of the coarse pitched ratchet wheel 59. Provision may also be made:

for repeating any selectionindefinitely, such as;

is often" desirable; for example in making the stem of a fancy clock or in making "lace net fabric, particularly lace net hose, "by disengaging theclawker 68. Itrnay also be desirable to'throw' the whole pelerine mechanism out of operation: for a. predetermined. number of courses. Forthis purpose there is a rnem'ber l5which may be movedup throughtheplatform lfi under the contr'ol of any. suitable. mechanism, preferably the. drum ofthe'machi'negto engage thebell-orank lever-55 and hold. it away from the cam 55 on the cylinder so that neither-isthe ratchet 59'- raokednor is the cam-operatingmember moved. V

In making lace net hose, it is necessary to have pelerine instruments all round the needle circle with possibly the-exception ota small arc the needlesin which ptoducea. narrow vertical-band of plain fabric in which a mockseam-Inay subsequently-be'forined. -Whatever the arrangement adopted, however, it is highlydesirable that while.

the foot is being made, approximately half the instruments should be thrown out of action so that stitches, the sole 1513131111; For this purpose, means.

are provided for rendering certain oftheselectingcams ill inoperatiyerfor-a predetermined number 'lsiare pivoted at lfito the top cam 49 of the battery, which levers ll and 'itextend back beyond thepivot l! of the cams, being provided with'partcircular recesses to clear the washer 90 at the 0nd and fourth selecting cams ll). These top four camsiiii in the battery are biased outwards away from. the trickwheel 55 by tension springs there being .atransverse slot 52 in said cams.

When theseifour-c'ams are freeto'move in this; manner theyflare' inoperative .because although:

their-feelers: are. moved by the'butts on the from among the pelrine inwhile the instep incorporates pelerine' ZOI.

of courses; Itwill be noticed that levers 'll ands top of :saidpivot 41. The lower lever iii-is proi8 and makes contact with the edges of the sec-- L 9!, the ends ofwhich are anchored to a pin 92-,'

v trick wheel this movement- -is-not appliedto bring the projections 44 into the. track of theuoperating member 35. On the otherhand, when pressure is exercised onlthe outer ends vof -the levers U andlii; the pins 84 and 85 iorce the tour; top cams oi the selecting; battery towards the trick wheel, so that they pivot aboutthe pin; and

donot slide upon it. The said camsaretherefore in which while itengages the end ,ofithe lower lever-"l8 and therefore renders the second and fourth selecting cams d of the battery operative,

.yet it does not bear upon the top lever ll because of the stepin it, or to a second position slightly further to the right as seen in Figures 6 and 14',

in which it engages both levers ll, 78 and renders all four top selecting cams oi thebattery operative. I

The present invention permits the production, on a machine, of novel pelerine efiects, and Figure 16 (in which thecourses are numbered l, 2 J 3, etc. and the needle wales are lettered A, B, C,

etc.) shows some of thearrangements of pelerine stitches that may be attained; It will be observed that in course i the sinker loops lBC, IDE, that connect needle loops EB and i0, iD and SE, are distended and are passed round the needle loops 2B and 2C; 2D and 2E, while in course 2 the sinker loops 2A3 and 2CD are passed round the needle loops 3A and 3B, 3C- and 313 of course 3. In other words, in a plurality of consecutive courses there are pelerine loops in every wale of a group thereof, said loops being in even wales in one course and odd wales in the next course. It will also be noticed that the needle loops in the needle wale B are engaged by pelerine loops from the sinker wales'from each side of it, and the same holds good about wales A, C, D,E, and G. In course 2 the needle loop 213 is engaged by the sink 7 er loop BC, in course 3 the needle loop 33 is engaged by the sinker'loop ZAB, and in course 5 the needle loop 53 is engaged by sinker loop ABC.

1. In pelerine mechanism of the type specified, V

the combination with a pelerine instrument and with the needles, of a further loop-engaging instrument for removing the loop from the instrument after it has been transfixed by a needle.

2. In pelerinemechanism of the type specified,

the combination with a pelerine instrument and with the needles, of a'loop-removing element associated with said' instrument, and means-for causing said element to engage the interior of the transfixed loop and to remove it from the instrument.

3. For a knitting machine, pelerine mechanism of the type specified having in combination with a pelerine instrument, a device alongside it provided with an upper loop-receiving edge, and

. tricks. 6.In a knitting machine having needles and means for removingatransfixed loop from said instrument by sinking the latter I below the; edge ofthesaiddevices 5i,@For a knitting machine-h aving needles means; for reciprocating them to knit, pelerine mechanism comprising; a pelerine, instrument 7 having a loop-receiving. part andmeans fonmoving itlto-and-fro between a position in whiqhitwo adjacent needles draw their connectingsinker loop over it and a position 'inwhich said;loop is displaced and at least one. needle, is projected through it, a blade-like part lying alongside the instrument in the second position,- said part hav-v ing an upper-loopreceiving'edge, and meansjor causing said edge to remove'the ,transfixe'dloop I from the instrument. 5. For a knitting machine, pelerine mechanism ofthe type specifiedcomprising a trickedbed for pelerine instruments; instruments 'mounted in said tricks for movement between their two positions transversely oi the line of the needles,

blade-like casting-off, members lying alongside the instruments in the loop-displacing position of the latter, and means for causing said members to remove the transfixed loops from the instruments by'depressing the latter within their means for operating them to knit, 'sinkers or v web-holders movable transversely of the needles and formed each at its upperedge with a loopengaging catch, means for advancing each said 7. For a knitting machine, pelerine mechanism of the type specified comprising a pelerineinsinker or web-holder to a position in whichthe adjacent needles draw their connecting sinker loop over it and for retracting it to a position strument of thin blade-like construction and provided at its upper edge with a catch for the sinker loop, a loop-receiving member lying alongside said instrument and having a smooth upper edge, and means for transferring the transfixed loop from the instrument to the member by burying the catch below the upper edge of the said member.

8. For a knitting machine, pelerine mechanism of the type specified comprising a pelerine instrument having a loop-engaging catch at one end and split longitudinally at leastat that end into two parts, means for moving said instrument between its loop-receiving and loop-displacing positions, a thin blade located-inline with the split at the loop-displacing position, and means for removing the transfixed loop from the catch by the blade said means comprising means for moving the instrument in the said position until an upper edge of said blade projects upwards through the split and the catch is'shielded by said blade. I

9. In a circular knitting machine having nee-, dles and sinkers, the combination of pelerine instruments associated one with each of a plurality of sinkers, each instrument comprising two thin blades lying one on each side of the sinker and having at its upper edge and near .its innerso r cent needles draw their connecting sinker loop over it and an outer position in Which the catch is withdrawn to the outside of the needle circle carrying-the loop' with it; means i for projecting at least one needle-through the loop thus carried outwards which means operates uponthe needles inprog're'ssicnwiththe means formoving the instruments'and means also operating onthe instruments in progression with the aforesaid means forremoving the-transfixed loop from the catchiby lowering the twoblades comprising the instrument down one on each side of the sinker until the'catch-is sunk below the upper edge of said sinker 'lOQIn a knitting machine, sinkers, means for selecting them to displace the sinker loops drawn over them, means for projecting needles through said displaced loops, and means for lifting the transfixed loops fromthe sinkers. '11. In a circular knittingmachine, instruments disposed in pairs around the needle circle, each pair' inline with a needle space, selective means operating-in progression upon the instruments for moving them'in' relation to each other and to theneedles one of a pair to take a sinker loop and displace it 'to" permit a needle to be projected' inside it' and the other to remove the transfixed loop fromthe former, means for projecting the needles in timed relation to the operation" of saidselective means, and means for causing the sinker loops to belly out by relaxing tension thereomprior to-the projection of the needles through them.

12. -For' a-knitting machine, the combination of a needle bed, needles therein, a loop-displacing pelerine instrument of non-divergent character and means for disengaging the bight of the loop from the instrument, subsequent to its transfixion'by a; needle, arrangedfto move the disengaging part of the instrument toward the'needles and in the direction of their length.

ALFRED REYMES COLE. BERNARD THORNTON COLE; 

